Solingen Mitte station
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Location | Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 51°09′58″N 7°05′22″E / 51.16611°N 7.08935°ECoordinates: 51°09′58″N 7°05′22″E / 51.16611°N 7.08935°E | ||||||||||
Owned by | DB Netz | ||||||||||
Operated by | DB Station&Service | ||||||||||
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Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
Train operators | Abellio Rail NRW | ||||||||||
Connections | S 7 | ||||||||||
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Station code | 5414[1] | ||||||||||
DS100 code | KSM | ||||||||||
IBNR | 8005598 | ||||||||||
Category | 5[1] | ||||||||||
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Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||
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Opened | 10 December 2006[4] | ||||||||||
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Solingen Mitte Location within North Rhine-Westphalia |
Solingen Mitte station is in the city of Solingen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is on the Wuppertal-Oberbarmen–Solingen railway. The line through the site of Solingen Mitte station was opened on 2 December 1890 as part of the , known as the Korkenzieherbahn ("Corkscrew Railway"), to Vohwinkel.[5] The station was opened on 10 December 2006.[4] It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.[1]
The station is served by line S 7 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn, branded as Der Müngstener, operated every 20 minutes from Monday to Friday and generally every half hour on weekends and at off-peak times, using (LINT 41) vehicles.[6][7] Until 15 December 1913 the station was served by Regional-Express service RB 47, operated by DB Regio NRW, normally with two-carriage sets of class 628.4. The Abellio Deutschland company won a contract that was put to tender in November 2010 and took over the operation of passenger services on the route from December 2013 for a period of 15 years.[8][9]
References[]
- ^ a b c "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ "S7 - Der Müngstener". Stadtwerke Remscheid. Abellio Rail NRW. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ^ "VRS-Gemeinschaftstarif" (PDF) (in German). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg. 20 April 2020. p. 207. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ^ a b Joost, André. "Solingen Mitte operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^ Joost, André. "Line 2734: Solingen - Wuppertal-Vohwinkel" (in German). Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^ Joost, André. "Solingen Mitte station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^ Joost, André. "S7". NRW rail archive (in German). Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^ "Abellio gewinnt Ausschreibung der RB 47". Eisenbahnjournal Zughalt.de (in German). 23 November 2010. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
- ^ "Bahn unterliegt Abellio bei RB 47-Ausschreibung". Rheinische Post (in German). 24 November 2010. Archived from the original on 27 November 2010. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
- Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn stations
- Buildings and structures in Solingen
- S7 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn)
- Railway stations in Germany opened in 2006
- North Rhine-Westphalia railway station stubs